Cheese eating surrender monkeys keep MMA banned

Not that it matters all that much, but France has just upheld it’s ban against mixed martial arts. This despite some serious lobbying efforts from the UFC to open the country up. What’s worse is it sounds like France is getting the same brand of Culinary Union bullshit as some New York Politicians:

The stance was welcomed by Carole Bretteville, the president of the Women’s Committee for Federation Francaise du Sport d’Entreprise.

“France works very hard to promote equality in all aspects of life, especially in sports,” she said. “I was appalled to find out how UFC was lobbying in France, especially when [told] how UFC has tolerated derogatory statements and attitudes against women. We cannot allow such an organisation to destroy all the work we have done to promote equality through French sports.”

Shit like that just makes me want to stick a pencil up my nose and slam my face against my desk. I don’t see many other sports where men and women regularly compete on the same cards. Or where women are featured in the biggest league in the sport. Have a couple of dumbasses said dumbass things about women in the past? Sure. Welcome to reality, where you can’t control what over 2000 past and present athletes say or do. But after tennis, I’d say MMA is probably one of the most gender equal sports out there.

As a french fan, I say this is bullshit
thanks for posting about this, I’m going to try to write to her
Plus french women would do good in MMA, there is a strong judo culture here full of badass women a la Rousey that could do well

BobMarley

Just sent her an email, i’ll post the response if I ever get one. After thinking about it, i’m pretty sure she’s just a random person mouthing off on it, with no real influence on the decision. I would be much less surprised if the decision to not legalize is due to “regular” sports federations (such as judo) lobbying against it in fear of losing their pipeline of talent to MMA.

Fightlinker

Yeah agreed, i think it’s prob a combination of soft lobbying from judo and boxing and kickboxing people and then the general ignorance of old french people when it comes to mixed martial arts. Since they’re mentally stuck in the 90s i’m sure they still see it as a brutal and barbarous sport.